In his home country of France, Vladimir Jankélévitch is today regarded as one of the central philosophers of the 20th century. For a long time, however, the descendant of Jewish-Russian immigrants was considered a homeless philosopher, unwilling to seek the favor of public opinion. Jankélévitch was a philosopher of commitment; nothing influenced his choice of topics more than his years in the Résistance. He wrote about death, love, and lies—but most compellingly about forgiveness. The Holocaust was, for Jankélévitch, a cultural rupture that definitively crossed the boundaries of forgiveness; he remained unappeased and forbade himself any connection with Germany after the war. The present selection showcases the thoughts of an uncomfortable, indeed demanding philosophical writer. A discovery.